Adam Mansbach, the bestselling cool dad author of Go the Fuck to Sleep, recently approached the MTA with the ads for his new book Rage Is Back. CBS Outdoor promptly shut down his request to put that on the exterior of subway trains. They don’t want anything that looks like graffiti. To be fair, the book is about a graffiti writer […]
The Brooklyn Public Library appears to have taken some design inspiration from TRNDY BNDS and FSHN LBLS for its vowel-eschewing new logo. Not to be Mr. Conservative Spelling-Police, but shouldn’t an institution that promotes literacy at least get the spelling of its own name right in its logo? Plus, anyone who’s anyone knows that if you’re […]
Vern, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Wear and tear has reduced MTA’s “If you see something, say something” campaign into mere gibberish. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
Artist Rutherford Chang really likes the Beatles’ 1968 self-titled album, colloquially known as the “White Album.” So much so, in fact, that he’s amassed over 650 first-pressings of the record, and is actively seeking more with “We Buy White Albums,” his new exhibit at Recess Gallery. Chang has established an “anti-store” for the album, in […]
So, this is a bit conflicting. Here’s a recently released book from photographer Scott Hocking: BAD GRAFFITI. Ahem ahem. BAD GRAFFITI is a current photography series focusing on the vulgar, juvenile, poorly scrawled, often misspelled, ignorant, ridiculous, hilarious, bad-ass, so-bad-its-good, under-the-radar, and generally dismissed as shitty graffiti that I love throughout Detroit. For one thing, there’s a […]
They’re Swedish as hell and they’re not going to take this anymore. The student-populated Flogsta neighborhood of Uppsala, Sweden has a tradition. Every evening at 10pm, they commence with the “the Flogsta scream.” It’s some sort of a communal primal scream therapy, or possibly, a remembrance ritual of a 70’s student suicide. Whatever it is, it’s […]
Number-crunching Austrian artist Peter Jellitsch was inspired by the internet to create the above sculpture, but not in the nostalgic/free associative/more-is-more way that’s typical of much net art–Jellitsch was simply interested in signal strength. For 45 days, the artist used a radio-wave-measuring device to read the strength of the Wi-Fi network at the Bleecker Street […]
Tom Waits, your favorite inimitable creaky crooner, is publishing a very special, very exclusive, very limited-edition collaborative book with photographer/singer Anton Corbijn, dubbed “Waits/Corbijn.” Only 6,600 copies will be available on May 8th. The Waits/Corbijn will feature 30 years of Tom Waits being very Tom Waits, spanning 272 pages of Corbijn portraits. Also, there’ll be Waits’ […]
ANIMAL’s original series I Should Have Shot That! asks photographers about that one shot that got away. This week, freelance photographer @weeddude talks about a train robbery in Thailand. I am a documenter. I go to the areas that most people would not go, or hot spots like Pakistan and Afghanistan, mostly for my own venture, my own […]
